Ideals sans Practice != Populist. There are plenty of populist revolutions and movements that have succeeded with the practice part - the French, Russian and mo

Ideals sans Practice != Populist. There are plenty of populist revolutions and movements that have succeeded with the practice part - the French, Russian and most Communist roughly fit this mold initially - so "merely" is unfair to history. The sad truth though is that nearly all of these fall back into hierarchies with a ruling class in control of the masses - which is probably some type of innate state of humanity of any size - unless social collaboration costs decrease significantly.